CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

WEEK 9/December 1 st    Required Readings: “Auteur Theory”. In the Routeledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory , eds. Edward Branigan & Warren Buckland, Routledge, 2014 [click HERE ] Astruc, Alexandra, “The Birth Of A New Avant-Garde: La Camera-Stylo”, Critical Visions In Film Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings , eds. Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White with Meta Mazaj, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011, pp350-354 [click HERE ] CHANGE! NO Sarris, Andrew. “The Auteur Theory Revisited”, Critical Visions In Film Theory: Classic And Contemporary Readings , eds. Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White with Meta Mazaj, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011, pp354-361  Stam, Robert. 2000. “the Cult of Auteur”, Film Theory: an Introduction , Blackwell Publishing, 83-92 [click HERE ] Reference Reading: “Introduction” & Bazin, Andre. “On the politique des auteurs”, Cahier du Cinema--the 1950s: Neorealism, Hollywood, New Wave . Eds. Jim Hiller. Ha...

Second CFA reading journal due on Nov 27 th , Monday, 5pm

first rule: don't talk about fight club! Ran here: on Nov 24th, I would also distribute working sheet to guide all of us to do group discussion on Fight Club, within the framework of classical/post-classical narrative . Time for you to draw examples from the film! I would update my question by Nov 17th, and I do hope you would come back to visit this site by then. Questions: 1. Based on what we have studied so far in terms of film style, how should we characterize the classical Hollywood filmmaking?  2. According to KT & DB, what is a narrative ? How about narration ? And how about narrator ? 3. What may be the cultural-political significance/function of the classical narrative (think of the formation of heterosexual couples, and the undertaking of a mission)?   Is   post-classical narrative   necessarily  something closer to "spectacle" (recall the cinema of attraction)? 4. Is Fight Club a best example of classical narrative,...

Nov 20th, Monday, 4:30PM, RM131. The film was directed by  David Fincher , and stars  Brad Pitt ,  Edward Norton , and  Helena Bonham Carter . 

WEEK 7 / November 17 th    UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAM/no class  (but you may want to make use of it to start the readings for Week 8) CLASSICAL/POST-CLASSICAL NARRATIVE WEEK 8/ November 24 th    Lecture & Discussion Required Readings: Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. 2010. “Narrative Form”, Film Art: an Introduction (10th Edition), University Of Wisconsin Press, 72-110 [click HERE to download] NOTE: link expires by Nov. 30 Reference Reading: Elsaesser, Thomas & Buckland, Warren. 2002. “Classical/post-classical narrative”, In Studying Contemporary American Films: a Guide to Movie Analysis, Bloomsbury Academic, 26-79. [click HERE to download] NOTE: link expires by Nov. 30 NOTE NOTE: wrong document replaced to download the notes for Week 6/Westing with Realism, click HERE NOTE: link expires by Nov. 17th